22 Jump Street
Posted by Itheliving 11 years, 4 months ago to Movies
22 Jump Street / Rated R for violence, language, sexual situations, drug use and general incoherency.
Having never seen the original TV series, I assume I missed a lot of the “inside jokes” used in the film 21 Jump Street (2012). Now I am up to speed. If there was anything to miss in 22 Jump Street I am sure I did not miss it.
Script issues are right up front. Incoherent and uneven are terms that come to mind. Also sophomoric and juvenile. There are more. After seeing 22JS, I find out the Directors, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller were heavily committed to The Lego Movie, released February of this year, and had no time to make any script revisions to 22JS before filming began. Whoever edited 22JS must have been too busy to do any needed editing work. While mildly amusing, 22JS primarily relies on the star power of Tatum Channing and Jonah Hill to carry the storyline as the buddy buddy plot line demands.
They are back from their successful 1st film in which they teamed up as cops doing high school drug busts. This time they are sent off to college to stop more baddies pushing the bad stuff to innocent students. The students seem to drink and party so much that all of them should be permanently hung over for the entire semester. They should have no need for expensive drugs. Just more beer money. So we get a lot of frat house parties and class room hi-jinx while the guys try to figure out who the “dealer” is in hopes they can locate the source of the drugs and put a stop to it.
TC gets involved in college football forming a partnership with the hippy dippy super quarterback played by Wyatt Hawn Russell. Read the name again and figure out whose son he is. He does a good job. Meanwhile Jonah is left out on his own and teams up with a cute female poetry major. Ice Cube once again plays their Captain and snarls and curses a lot. Halfway through the film IC has the best scene in the film at a nice luncheon. Ice cubes also play a big role in all of the mixed party drinks being consumed.
Following the prerequisite big chase scene at the beginning is a big action scene at the end. These two scenes are bracketed by all of what I have described above. Not much of a film…but wait. The movie manages to redeem a lot of what it lost with a clever end title sequence that prepares us for what we will see in sequels 23 Jump Street to somewhere in the 40’s Jump Street. Cleverly filmed in a day, there is also a neat cameo involving another “big name” star. If you attend, stay for these scenes played over the 1st half of the credits. Better than all that came before.
Rated 2.0 out of 4.0 make that 2.5 out of 4.0 because of the end credits. A real sequel will depend of the box office results.
Having never seen the original TV series, I assume I missed a lot of the “inside jokes” used in the film 21 Jump Street (2012). Now I am up to speed. If there was anything to miss in 22 Jump Street I am sure I did not miss it.
Script issues are right up front. Incoherent and uneven are terms that come to mind. Also sophomoric and juvenile. There are more. After seeing 22JS, I find out the Directors, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller were heavily committed to The Lego Movie, released February of this year, and had no time to make any script revisions to 22JS before filming began. Whoever edited 22JS must have been too busy to do any needed editing work. While mildly amusing, 22JS primarily relies on the star power of Tatum Channing and Jonah Hill to carry the storyline as the buddy buddy plot line demands.
They are back from their successful 1st film in which they teamed up as cops doing high school drug busts. This time they are sent off to college to stop more baddies pushing the bad stuff to innocent students. The students seem to drink and party so much that all of them should be permanently hung over for the entire semester. They should have no need for expensive drugs. Just more beer money. So we get a lot of frat house parties and class room hi-jinx while the guys try to figure out who the “dealer” is in hopes they can locate the source of the drugs and put a stop to it.
TC gets involved in college football forming a partnership with the hippy dippy super quarterback played by Wyatt Hawn Russell. Read the name again and figure out whose son he is. He does a good job. Meanwhile Jonah is left out on his own and teams up with a cute female poetry major. Ice Cube once again plays their Captain and snarls and curses a lot. Halfway through the film IC has the best scene in the film at a nice luncheon. Ice cubes also play a big role in all of the mixed party drinks being consumed.
Following the prerequisite big chase scene at the beginning is a big action scene at the end. These two scenes are bracketed by all of what I have described above. Not much of a film…but wait. The movie manages to redeem a lot of what it lost with a clever end title sequence that prepares us for what we will see in sequels 23 Jump Street to somewhere in the 40’s Jump Street. Cleverly filmed in a day, there is also a neat cameo involving another “big name” star. If you attend, stay for these scenes played over the 1st half of the credits. Better than all that came before.
Rated 2.0 out of 4.0 make that 2.5 out of 4.0 because of the end credits. A real sequel will depend of the box office results.
